The Betrayal That Burned Down Two Houses
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The first lie was small enough to swallow. Marisol said she'd been at her sister's place across town, and when I mentioned offhand that her sister had called the house looking for her that same evening, she didn't even flinch. She just smiled and said the phones must have crossed wires. I let it go, the way you let a hundred small things go across twenty-two years of marriage, because the alternative is unthinkable and the dishes still need doing.
But the thread was loose now, and I kept worrying at it.
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